It means they can semantically define anything they want into absolute oblivion. Derrida would be proud.

I’m just going to get one that says ‘NO I AM’. Works for everything.

Ha, I am quite cynical. I also know how to deal with dyed-in-the-wool contrarians.

I have a different theory than ‘be clear in their intentions’. If Trump wants to create a post-fact media culture then this can actually be used to an advantage. What you need to do is pander to their epistemological vanity with outrageous hyperbole that they assume turns other people off. This is turn makes them feel…

All true, but before this election such rhetoric would have sounded very conspiracy theoristy when directed at a national audience. A potential silver lining about the result is that such rhetoric may now be taken seriously as long as it is imbibed with a helping of “Telling it like it is”. Then people might start to…

Some would say HuffPo or MediaMatters but at least they attempt to cite their sources. If it exists, I’ve yet to find it. Or I already have and don’t know it. Uh oh!

It also, hypothetically, makes affirmative action look much worse. More self-prophesizing from the moral majority heh?

It’s almost as if they want a dumb populace. No that can’t be, that’s tin foil hat territory right?

Unfailingly panders to whoever he’s talking to. So you’re saying... he’s a politician? Well don’t tell his supporters that, they may not like this new development.

baby, bathwater

Sagan is weeping. Gone too soon, but at least he didn’t have to witness this clusterfuck.

Jefferson had a copy of pretty much everything; they restocked the Library of Congress after it was burned in the War of 1812 with a huge donation from his private library. Dude was a legit bibliophile.

I think what we're proposing are anti-lassie-faire and egalitarian, and therefore un-American. It would be nice if the government didn't have to step in and make executives pay reasonable wages. 'Twas ever thus.

Oh my god I have always thought this! Like if a CEO or owner or whatever could only make like lets say a thousand times more than the lowest person on the company ladder, does that not seem like enough? This is not to say that it hampers the head honcho from making money hand over fist, they just have to lift all…

I just watched Money Monster last night and this reminds of a scene in it which is in so many films and tv series. The bad guy looks at his now enlightened subordinate and tells them "Hey, I'm not bad. You know this, you know me better than anyone." Which is to say: if the person who knows you best knows nothing about…

Oh it’s a great lesson indeed. Everyone was giving Nixon lifelines and he was trying so hard build up plausible deniability, but fortunately Dean was having none of it. The scariest part is how easily he could’ve gotten away with it, which proves to me that there’s tons of shit about him and every other administration…

If you're looking for a good takedown of Brooks check out driftglass's blog, he eviscerates him weekly and is always worth a read.

I read Thompson first, then that hack and Bernstein. I wasn’t actually planning on reading All the President’s Men but I had it so I decided it was as good a time as any. Next I’m going to read Conservatives Without Conscience by the whistleblower himself, and I’ll buttress that with Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians. I…

It’s okay it happens to me all the time. I wish their commenting system would at least number the comments so this wouldn’t happen. No need to reply to my comment anyway as I seem to write for myself a lot of the time lol.

Yes, but Conservative Republicans have lost the last two presidential elections and the demographics are increasingly working against them on a national scale where they can’t gerrymander. The only reason this would help (running a conventional campaign) is because of who he’s running against, but I think her…